Posts by: Randy Kraft
Randy Kraft’s OC BookBlog: “Minor Characters” by Joyce Johnson
By Randy Kraft Now and then, a good memoir touches the heart, and also educates, and this memoir, published in 1983 and...
Two by One: Two Recent Fictions by Mary Gordon
By Randy Kraft I should say five fictions, because The Liar’s Wife, published in 2014, is a collection of four novellas,...
Truths in Fiction X2
Two novels, two distinctly different writers, and two very different subjects, yet both get to the most profound human truths and both tell...
Randy Kraft’s OC BookBlog
Today, I recommend, the slight 150-page novel by the renowned Italian writer, Domenico Starnone, rumored to be the husband of the enigmatic...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “4 3 2 1” by Paul Auster
I have been reading Paul Auster for 30 years. He fascinates with his meditative, metaphysical view of humanity. He is also one of the great...